Hello, I am at a loss I have a 2013 Avant I have owned it since new, but recently things have been going wrong. The car would occasionally not start I could get into the car but it wouldn’t start, I had the AA out and they sent a VW specialist out who diagnosed that the convenience module needed replacing, this was done and the car worked great for 2 weeks then the same problem happened again. Called the AA they said it needed to go into a Audi garage, my local garage said they couldn’t see me until the 06/11 so the car is sat on the driveway, today I thought I would see if it started and it did. I drove around for 20 minutes, parked up at home and it won’t start again! If anyone has any idea it would be greatly appreciated! 

 

Welcome Alastair and sorry to hear of your issue.

Diesel or petrol? 
When you say it won’t start, do you mean the engine cranks over on the starter but it doesn’t start, or doesn’t it crank over on the starter? 
Regards,

Gareth. 

Apologies, diesel 2.0, no the car unlocks, press the start button and nothing, I can turn the radio on but press the start button and nothing happens.

53 minutes ago, AlMaxParks said:

Apologies, diesel 2.0, no the car unlocks, press the start button and nothing, I can turn the radio on but press the start button and nothing happens.

Hi get it plugged in that should flush out the fault my suspect is the clutch position sensor on the master cylinder these are plastic cr@p and frequently fail the body control module has to receive the correct signal for the pedal being down to allow it to start, no signal no power to the start button to initiate cranking.

Steve.

Thank you for your advice Steve seams plausible. 

Please let us know what happens Alastair. 

Any progress to report Alastair, so that we can hopefully close the thread off? 

Sorry for the delay in responding, it has taken a significant amount of time to find the issue with my car, I have now been informed by the garage that it’s an issue with the electronic steering lock mechanism, apparently this prevents the car from starting and links in with the  immobiliser this has now been replaced and the car is now working.